To view God as one who randomly and mysteriously moves through human history doing here and there whatever and however the Hepleases is not how the Bible story reads. It may be conceived and proposed to work this way philosophically, where God does at will what God wants. But if one is talking about the acts of God in the Bible, history speaks of God who is goal oriented, and that, in achieving His purpose for the human race, the covenant idea was employed by God to get people where God hopesHe could get us to go. Gods being an agenda oriented being is not a typical attribute of God in most world religions. And it is unfortunate because